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Edward Carroll Stone (born January 23, 1936) is an American space scientist, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, and former director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Stone was born in Knoxville, Iowa. After receiving his undergraduate education at Iowa's Burlington Junior College in Iowa, Stone attended the University of Chicago where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics. Stone's astrophysics career goes back to his first cosmic-ray experiments on Discoverer satellites in 1961. He then joined the staff of Caltech as a research fellow, and became a full faculty member in 1967.
He was named professor of physics in 1976, and was chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy from 1983 to 1988. He has also served as director of the Caltech Space Radiation Laboratory, and as vice president for Astronomical Facilities. He is currently the Morrisroe Professor of Physics and the vice-chair of the Thirty Meter Telescope Board of Directors.As project scientist for the unmanned Voyager spacecraft missions to the outer Solar System from 1972, and a major spokesman for the Voyager science team, he became especially well known to the public in the 1980s. He has since been principal investigator on nine NASA spacecraft missions and coinvestigator on five more.
He was the principal investigator for the Cosmic Ray System on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, an experiment to measure cosmic rays. He also appeared in The Farthest, a 2017 documentary on the Voyager program. Stone retired from project scientist of the Voyager missions in 2022 after holding the role for 50 years.
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GenderMale
Birthday1936-01-23 (88 years old)
Birth NameEdward Carroll Stone Jr
Birth PlaceKnoxville, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsEdward J. Stone, Ed Stone
AwardsNational Medal of Science, Carl Sagan Memorial Award, Honorary degree, honorary degree, Theodore von Kármán Award, honorary doctor of the University of Chicago, Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, The Shaw Prize in Astronomy, Fellow of the American Physical Society, honorary doctor of Harvard University, Golden Plate Award, Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Space Flight Award, Magellanic Premium, Howard Hughes Memorial Award, NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, NASA Distinguished Service Medal, NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, honorary member, Richtmyer Memorial Award
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